Given how Dr. King spent his life, it seems very fitting that Martin Luther King Jr. Day is becoming recognized nationwide as a day for service. Yesterday’s MLK Day marked the 25th anniversary of the day becoming a federal holiday; events at Baylor over the weekend celebrating the man and his memory included a candlelight […]
This fall, the National Research Council (NRC) released its first detailed study of graduate programs since 1995, and their findings repeat those reported by Academic Analytics earlier this year: Baylor’s graduate programs have made tremendous progress over the past decade, and many now rank among the nation’s best in their fields. Of note from the […]
There’s no doubt that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One will rule the box office this weekend; some experts predict it could top $100 million on opening weekend alone. But what are fans leaving the theater to do while waiting for Deathly Hallows: Part Two‘s release next July? Potter fanatics might do well […]
Today is Veterans’ Day. To honor and aid those who have served to keep us safe and protect our freedoms, researchers in Baylor’s College of Arts and Sciences (psychology/neuroscience) and the School of Social Work are studying what exactly causes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how it affects not only soldiers but their families in […]
There’s a lot of debate in the world today over whether acts like adultery, rage and addiction are choices we make (sins) or simply a result of our biological disposition. Dr. Matthew Stanford, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor, argues that the answer may not be one or the other, but both. In a […]
Halloween is the one day a year where Americans are neither surprised nor scared to find ghosts, goblins and boogeymen on the front porch. But a surprising number of people believe in those and other curiosities — UFOs, Bigfoot, and the like — not just at Halloween, but yearround. Baylor professors Dr. Carson Mencken and […]
Back in December, we wrote about Baylor grad Hunter Smith (BS ’08) and his work with an Austin-based group of engineers in modifying a car so it could be driven by an iPhone app. How would Smith ever top that? Easy; he and another BU alum, Chris Culver (BS ’08), worked on Waterloo Labs‘ latest […]
Yesterday, the main story on the front page of USA Today — the most widely circulated print newspaper in the U.S. — was about the work of two Baylor professors and their new book, America’s Four Gods. Sociology professors Dr. Christopher Bader and Dr. Paul Froese based their work on results from the biennial Baylor […]
On this date in 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi — a key moment as the Civil Rights Movement fought to end racial discrimination throughout the 1960s. Almost half a century later, oral historians are still working to capture the history of those who lived through […]
Film and digital media professor Chris Hansen doesn’t just tell his students how movies are made; he shows them. Hansen has written and directed three films: The Proper Care & Feeding of an American Messiah (released in 2006), Clean Freak (2008), and now Endings (2010). His most recent effort, Endings was filmed in and around […]
